Hot Summer Night (1957)
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Hot Summer Night is an out-of-the-ordinary crime yarn from the TV/radio production team of Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Unemployed journalist William Joel Pertain (Leslie Nielsen) hopes to reestablish himself by capitalizing on a recent wave of bank robberies. Pertain has a "lead" to the gang's leader Tom Ellis (Robert Wilke), and intends to parlay this into a hot news story. Instead, he places the lives of himself and his wife Irene (Colleen Miller) in dire peril. Of interest is the fact that the villain is portrayed with a modicum of sympathy, while the reporter comes off as a bit of a jerk. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, (more)
- Director(s):
- David Friedkin
Synopsis of Hot Summer Night
Hot Summer Night is an out-of-the-ordinary crime yarn from the TV/radio production team of Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Unemployed journalist William Joel Pertain (Leslie Nielsen) hopes to reestablish himself by capitalizing on a recent wave of bank robberies. Pertain has a "lead" to the gang's leader Tom Ellis (Robert Wilke), and intends to parlay this into a hot news story. Instead, he places the lives of himself and his wife Irene (Colleen Miller) in dire peril. Of interest is the fact that the villain is portrayed with a modicum of sympathy, while the reporter comes off as a bit of a jerk. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Hot Summer Night
- Leslie Nielsen - William Joel Partain
- Edward Andrews - Lou Follett
- James Best - Kermit
- Claude Akins - Truckdriver
- Bob Wilke - Tom Ellis
- Colleen Miller - Irene Partain
- Jay C. Flippen - Oren Kobble
- Paul Richards - Elly Horn
- Marianne Stewart - Ruth Childers
- Director(s):
- David Friedkin
- Writer(s):
- David Friedkin, Morton S. Fine
- Producer(s):
- Morton S. Fine
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